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The election campaign has barely begun. Yet the Tories’ approach is so crushingly repetitive that the press is growing restless.

Today in London, journalists were invited to attend a Conservative “campaign event”. It essentially consisted of Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, and David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, taking turns to recite their party’s slogans. The journalists, having heard these slogans countless times before, did not appear wildly enthused.

Mr Hammond began by paying robotic tribute to the Government’s “strong and stable economic leadership”.